Another one of my (roughly) three-yearly "wish the rules could allow referee's to produce red cards for cynical shirt pulls like that" incidents.
Oh man, I know it's only Twitter and not real life but that's some bad PR. He is going to need a good transfer window and the expectations are already huge.
Glad he didn't. Think we may well be watching those little buggers down the bottom a fair bit now. The gap isn't that big.
Paul Clement is the new Swans manager. Not a bad choice that one, even if I don't know if they can be saved.
Looks unlikely now. I thought they'd raise their game for caretaker today, but they were limp. Tough ask now. Hope they give him time though.
It's another gamble for me. Not a bigger one than Bradley, no. But still a gamble. He no doubt has immense experience as a No.2 (but then again, I'm sure Mike Phelan does too...), but he doesn't scream relegation survivor to me. And he only lasted 2 minutes at Derby. Still, until we see what they do in the transfer window, it's hard to comment too much. They can still be saved if they get next month right.
He did fairly well at Derby, but got sacked because he was apparently too concerned with winning promotion and wanted a bit of investment. They also sacked McClaren at the end of the season, and got into another fight with Nigel Pearson in October that saw him leave. Not sure I'd place most of the blame on Clement; Derby is approaching Italian levels of managerial turnover.
There were people on here who said Wijnaldum wasn't worth going for, but he is exactly the type of midfield player we need. One who will get into the box AND score a few goals. Even before Lallana left, I wanted a second, similar type of player, so if one had an off day, the other might step up. Now we need two, preferably 6ft, powerful and athletic. I also think that is what Claude needs to get the team playing in the style he wants (although it still mystifies me as to why we employed a manager who would set about changing how the team played, given that the club had spent so many years recruiting players to play the so called Southampton Way).
